Elsewhere on his social media – where he has many pictures with leading Reform UK figures including Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, and Kerr – Calder has launched diatribes against Jewish people.
Grant Calder, a Reform UK member who has regularly been pictured with the party’s deputy Scottish leader Thomas Kerr, was photographed on Buchanan Street steps on Tuesday evening holding a “White Lives Matter” banner.
On September 7, 2025, he wrote on Facebook: “Jews are forcing us to swallow hordes of migrants, flooding land with the dregs of the world to dilute our Protestant stock and shatter the Union.”
NEW: Police have finally issued a statement nearly 18 hours after events
- 3 men arrested and charged "in connection with various offences" - ages 31, 18 and 18
- 2 officers injured
- 3 members of the public injured "because of the colour of their skin"
NEW: A Reform UK activist who campaigns with top party figures joined the racist rioters in Glasgow on Tuesday and has claimed that “Jews" are trying "to dilute our Protestant stock and shatter the Union”, The National can reveal.
Journalists are unable to communicate what happened to their readers. People of colour in the city are terrified because they don't know the scale of events, or what is going to happen to respond to this.
Our official bodies need a plan for this. We knew this was coming.
